Showing a deep crimson-purple hue in the glass and delivering incredibly fresh aromas of red and black macerated fruits, with tantalizing cedar oak spices underscored by crushed red rock minerality. There’s an abundance of superlatives describing the source winery’s wines: “absolute stunner,” “epic length,” and “many, many layers,” of “singular,” “absolutely compelling” wines that deliver “unbelievable fruit on the attack.” One notable critic even found such intensity, depth and richness, it inspired an incredible comparison (one we wish we had come up with): suggesting that it was like a First Growth only on “steroids.”Īs for our version, we took 79% Cabernet Sauvignon and married it with 7% Petite Sirah, 7% Charbono, 4% Zinfandel, 2% Merlot, and 1% Petit Verdot, blended and aged on our watch in one-quarter new French oak for 24 months. The price of our rendition will leave you speechless: The 2017 Radio Silence starts at $45 a bottle cascading, like a piano glissando, down to $38 each on cases.
As for the price of the source winery? Their bottles start at $150, rise to $600, and climb to $1,000 per bottle at auction. Robert Parker’s Wine Advocate has bestowed at least 45 scores hitting 95 and above, and nearly ten wines have earned 100-point scores. While the winery will maintain radio silence, we can tell you it is the very definition of a critical darling. Like the many, many pages of an NDA we signed about the grape source for this positively monumental Cabernet. We’re quietly thrilled to share the 2017 Radio Silence Cabernet Sauvignon from Napa Valley. On that note, great wine leads to a kind of drop-dead silence all its own, doesn’t it? Silence, Cage posited, is in actuality bursting with sound. The piece was “The Roaring Silence,” by composer John Cage. By the time he raised the piano lid to take a bow, members of the audience were losing it. Tudor sat there for exactly four minutes and thirty-three seconds without playing a single note. Pianist David Tudor walked on stage at the Maverick Concert Hall in Woodstock, New York, sat in front of a grand piano, took out a stopwatch, and closed the lid. Elizabeth II was named the Queen of England, and the first hydrogen bomb was tested at the Marshall Islands in the Pacific Ocean-rather noisy affairs. Quite a few interesting things happened in 1952.
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